Chapter 1
Vytal Festival
It had finally begun the tournament that took us 3 seasons to reach.
SHDE had been preparing since the time the Grimm invaded the city.
By the time the Vytal festival arrived they were ready for there first match.
The arena they were in was half forest and half mountain.
And what of the team well…
Shade was blocking some shots from a guy a shotgun mace.
Erika was going toe to toe with another spear user.
Dawn was dodging someone who had a bazooka bat.
And Hiroki was scaring the sword user of the other team.
He was walking towards the male slowly.
The man tried to shoot at Hiroki who moved slightly to the left dodging it.
"Really?"
Hiroki kicked the man into the girl with the bazooka bat.
Dawn nods at Hiroki.
Meanwhile Erika was starting to lose her balance against the other spear user.
"This isn't good"
She fell to the ground.
Suddenly a blade suddenly knocked the woman's spear away.
And Erika took advantage and threw the girl into the two that her teammates knocked out.
Meanwhile the man that was shootng at Shade was prepared to hit him with it.
But just before it hit Shade a shadow hand blocks it.
"Yeah you didn't have a chance."
The man was in shock.
"Bye"
Shade uppercuts the man with his gauntlet arm.
Team SHDE gathered in the center.
Professor Port spoke into the microphone.
"And the winner is Team SHDE from Beacon"
The team left the arena and made there way to the food stalls.
"That was fun"
Shade said simply
"Yeah that was interesting"
Dawn said next.
"Yeah that spear user was touch she's lucky I didn't go all out"
Hiroki shook his head at Erika
"Your gonna get killed if you keep holding back"
Erika had a large grin
She wrapped her arm around Hiroki's head.
"Don't worry about me"
Hiroki pushed her off him.
"I'm not worried I don't care"
"Right"
Erika said sarcastically.
"Uhhh hey look"
Shade was clearly trying to stop the conversation.
He points at a stall where team RWBY and JNPR were sitting at.
"Let's join them"
Dawn nods.
"Yes let's."
Erika nods happily.
Hiroki shrugs.
They all walk towards the stall and took the last seats.
"Hey guys"
Shade said.
"Hey Shade your fight was awesome your team basically destroyed your opponents."
Ruby said excited.
"Yeah we all did our part"
Shade said as his team each got a large bowl of noodles.
"One question though"
Weiss said looking at Shade.
"Ask away"
"Why were you blocking that one guy when you easily beat him without your weapon?"
That made everyone look at Shade.
"I was watching everyone's fight by the way Dawn you were doing the same thing"
They all then looked at Dawn.
"Hey I was curious"
"Ok enough let's eat".
They all agreed.
After a while ,everyone had different reactions to eating all the food.
Erika smiled happily and her tongue sticking out.
Dawn was laying back her head staring at the sky.
Hiroki simply pushed the bowl forward.
Shade had his head on the table.
"Are you sure it's wise to have eaten before a fight?"
Ren said to his team.
Pyrrah responded
"Of course it will give us energy"
"I can agree to that"
Erika raised her hand up.
Nora let out a loud burp.
"That did more damage to us then anyone on the team we just fought"
Shade said with a smile
Yang and Ruby laughed at that.
Jaune groaned and he played his head on the table.
"Oh cmon that joke wasn't that bad."
Jaune responds.
"It's Nora if I barf I'm blaming her."
"Ooh aim it at the enemy"
Ren responds
"Nora that's disgusting, but if you do feel the urge"
Jaune held up a thumbs up
"Got it"
Pyrrah stood up.
"Well we should be off"
"So your fights next?"
Dawn said looking at the team.
Three of them nodded while jaune was still laying on the counter.
"So you guys think your ready?"
Ruby asks.
Nora responded
"Of course, we got a world renowned fighter on our team, someone who's basically a ninja"
Dawn shook her head.
Nora continued
"I can bench 5 of me, and jaune…, we trained all year, our weapons are awesome,Glynda barely yells at us anymore, and uh jaune"
Ren looks over at jaune
"Are you gonna take that?"
"She's not wrong"
Nora responded
"I'm kidding he knows I'm kidding, don't be so nervous the worst that can happen is that we lose,then it's just a few more years of walking around school with everyone knowing were failures, our friends will slowly abandon us for surface social status, we won't be able to show our faces in class, no one will sit with us at the cafeteria, and ren and I have no parents we have no home left to go to well be officially renamed team Lucifer. "
She began to cry a little until she banged her head on the counter.
What she said immediately made all of team SHDE even hiroki a little scared.
Not for losing but scared of Nora's mental state of mind.
Ren spoke up
"So yeah we're feeling pretty good."
Pyrrah spoke next.
"Don't fret if anything we should be looking forward to a fight with guidelines and not murder."
SHDE simply nodded as Blake listed all the enemies they faced.
The loud speaker came on.
Professor port spoke.
"Will team JNPR please report to the battle grounds immediately"
Then professor ooblek spoke.
"Yes like they were scheduled to several minutes ago."
"Well looks like this is it"
Pyrrah spoke.
Her team began to walk away.
Ruby shouted
"Go get em"
Shade stood up.
"Well we better go watch."
The rest of them stood up.
And they all made there way to the stands.
During what seemed to be a dramatic form of the battle.
Team JNPR began to have a conversation about team attacks.
Shade put his hand on his forehead and shook his head.
"So glad I planned ahead."
They continued to watch.
"Nora just hit them with the hammer"
Jaune said.
"Got it"
One of the members on the other team looked confused.
"Wait what"
Nora jumped towards them and hit them all with her hammer out of the arena.
"Ok now I'm scared of Nora"
Dawn said.
"Let's hope we have an easier time than that team"
Shade said looking at the four injured people.